Far-right extremist Candace Owens has been denied entry into Australia

Far-right conspiracy theorist Candace Owens will not go on her speaking tour to Australia after she was denied a visa due to her hateful rhetoric.

“From downplaying the impact of the Holocaust with comments about (Nazi doctor Josef) Mengele to claims that Muslims started slavery, Candace Owens has the ability to stoke discord in virtually every direction,” the Australian said. Immigration Minister Tony Burke, Member of the Centre. -left-wing Labor government, told local media during the weekend.

“Australia’s national interest is best served when Candace Owens is elsewhere.”

Shadow Immigration Minister Dan Tehan, of the centre-right Liberal Party, had also said in August that the government should block Owens’ visa on character grounds to prevent the spread of “hateful messages”.

In July, Owens suggested on her podcast that the gruesome experiments Mengele conducted on twins in Holocaust death camps never happened. proverb “That just sounds like bizarre propaganda.”

The right-wing provocateur’s Australian speaking tour was due to kick off on November 17, with shows planned in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide.

She will also speak in Auckland on November 14. New Zealand officials do too reportedly review her visa application.

Her tour website advertises the show as an “exciting evening” with Owens. “In a world full of safe spaces, Candace cuts through the fluff and delivers raw and unfiltered commentary on politics, culture and everyday life,” it reads.

Tickets for the event ranged from approximately $63 USD for general admission to approximately $990 for a private pre-show dinner and meet and greet with Owens.

Owens has not yet publicly commented on the visa decision.

The Anti-Defamation Commission, an Australian civil rights organization that was among several Jewish groups calling for Owens’ expulsion, called the decision “a victory for the truth.”

“Australia has no place for those who mock the suffering of genocide survivors and insult the memories of the six million Jews who died,” said chairman Dvir Abramovich. saidThis was reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The Daily Wire was published in March ended his relationship with Owens after she clashed with co-founder, Ben Shapiro, over her anti-Semitic views. In the lead-up to her departure from the right-wing outlet, she had amplified a series of unhinged conspiracy theories. including one about Jews who are ‘drunk with Christian blood’.